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bearing a short, stout, scalelike hair, with a sparse row of large, long, 
sharp spines, the mecca three or four each with its base broad, 
occupying from one-half to two-thirds of the diameter of the oe 
space and from two to three times as long as wide; third interspace 
with about four slightly smaller but similar spines, fifth and seventh 
interspaces each with one or two sharp spinelike asperities; second in- 
terspace nearly flat, shining, punctured, with short, wide, scalelike 
hairs. Front face of mesosternum moderately steep. 
Female-—Similar to male in general proportions and size; frons 
broader between eyes, frontal rectangle about 0.66 as long as wide; 
somewhat flattened below, arcuately impressed, with a distinct, 
elevated median carina on its lower half; pronotum indefinitely 
impressed behind at each side of median line; elytral declivity 
(pl. 38, fig. 6) with first and third interspaces only moderately con- 
vex, each with a sparse row of smail, inconspicuous, rather sharp 
asperities; all interspaces clothed with numerous hairs, some of 
which are slender but most of which are short and somewhat scale- 
like. 
Type locality.—Chiricahua Mountains, N. Mex. 
Additional locality—Pine, Ariz. 
Host.—Cupressus arizonica Greene. 
Type material—Holotype, allotype, and six paratypes, U.S.N.M. 
No. 55400. 
Remarks.—The holotype, allotype, and one paratype (a fragment) 
were collected by Donald DeLeon from Cupressus arizonica, Chiri- 
cahua Mountains, N. Mex., October 2, 1936; and five paratypes were 
collected from the same host, at Pine, Ariz., by R. L. Furniss. 
PHLOEOSINUS SWAINEI Bruck 
Phloeosinus minutus SwaINe (not Blandford, 1894), Canada Dept. Agr., Ent. 
Branch, Bull, 14, pt. 1, p. 9, 1917. 
Phloeosinus swainei Bruck, Cant Ent., vol. 65, p. 56, 1933.—W. J. CHAMBERLIN, 
Bark and timber beetles of North America, p. 173, 1939. 
Male—Black, with antennal club and tarsi brown; pubescence 
moderately abundant, reddish cinereous; 1.75 to 2.1 mm. long, about 
1.91 times as long as wide. 
Frons black, moderately shining; broad between eyes, frontal rec- 
tangle about 0.68 as long as wide; epistomal margin slightly thick- 
ened, epistomal lobe short and inconspicuous; broadly, moderately 
deeply concave, finely punctate and distinctly granulate at sides and 
above, concavity smooth and brightly shining above in middle fourth, 
with a fine, moderately elevated, rather short median carina on 
ventral two-fifths of concavity; vestiture fine and short at sides and 
above, longer on epistoma. Eye elongate, about 2.8 times as long 
